Value orientations of overweight women

The purpose of the article is to substantiate the hypothesis about the differences in the value orientations of overweight women and women with normal body weight and to study the features of value orientations of overweight women. Materials and methods. The article presents the data of empirical research on value orientations of overweight women obtained using the methods of “Value orientations” by M. Rokich, the S. Schwartz value survey, the sense-of-life orientations test by D.A. Leontiev. The study involved 80 females aged 20-40 years with higher education. The experimental group included 40 females with excess body weight. The control group included 40 females with normal body weight. The reliability of the differences in the obtained data was determined by calculating the values of the nonparametric Mann-Whitney U-test. Pearson correlation coefficient values were calculated to assess the association of the measured variables. The calculations were performed using the SPSS Statistics v. 17.0 software package. Results. When comparing groups of women with excess and normal body weight, the features of value orientations were revealed expressed in differences in the field of achievements, life goals, courage in defending their opinions, and life satisfaction. Conclusion. Our study confirmed the hypothesis, and it can be argued that overweight women have significant differences in value orientations compared with people with normal body weight.